Horseshoe



Nov. 19, 1935.

A, V ANDERSON ET AL HORSESHOE Filed Sept. 10, 1934 Inuentm's FLU .Hnflers n11 rJ.E.Hnl1eI'sun 'rJ-B-LE E AIJgUMZW iQ/Z Z Htturngg Patented Nov. 19, 1935 UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE HORSESHOE Application September 10, 1934, Serial No. 743,346

Claims. (01. 168-13) Our invention relates to improvements in horse shoes and the object of the invention is to devise a resilient shoe provided with integrally formed calks wherein a metallic core is provided encased in the rubber encasement.

A further object is to provide a metal core which is sufficiently thin or capable of being bent so that within the limits of the particular size the shoe may be bent to fit different shaped horses feet, as in the case of the orthodox metallic shoe.

A still further object is to provide means wherein the resilient calks are reinforced to present their being torn off from the resilient encasement due to scufling of the horses feet.

And another object is to devise means for causing the more intimate cohesion of the resilient encasement, which is preferably rubber, to the metallic core.

With the above and other objects in view which will hereinafter appear as the specification proceeds, our invention consists in its preferred embodiment of the construction and arrangement all as hereinafter more particularly described and illustrated in the accompanying drawing in which:-

Fig. 1 is a plan view of a metallic core constructed according to our invention provided with depressed portions in the vicinity of the toe clip constituting a key or bond for the rubber encasement for ensuring more intimate cohesion between it and the metallic core;

Fig. 2 is a. front view of the shoe core illustrated in Fig. 1;

Fig. 3 is an inverted plan view of the completed shoe employing the type of core illus-= trated in Figs. 1 and 2 and being provided with reinforcing ribs extending between the toe and heel calks, said ribs being formed of rubber integral with the toe and heel calks and with the rubber encasement, the rubber encasement also extending up about the toe clip;

Fig. 4 is a side elevation of the shoe illustrated in Fig. 3; and

Fig. 5 is a cross-sectional view taken through the line 5-5 Fig. 3.

Like characters of reference indicate corresponding parts in the different views.

The core of the shoe consists of a thin metal or easily bendable metallic plate I of shoe shape. The plate is moulded into a shoe shaped encasement 2, such encasement completely surrounding the plate, and the toe clip 3 as well, Which latter following standard practice in metallic shoes is formed integrally with the toe portion and tapers upwardly.

The toe and heel calks 4 and 5 respectively which are themselves of rubber are formed integrally with the rubber encasement 2 which 5 constitutes the means for securing the calks to the shoe in contradistinction to the method employed for attaching rubber calks to metallic shoes which consists in embedding metallic shanks in the rubber calks and inserting them into sockets formed in the metallic shoe.

In order to securely bond the rubber encasement to the metallic core, the forward portions of the metallic core I on each side of the toe clip 3 are depressed at I 2 out of the plane of the plate, forming cupped or concave portions which act as keys or bonds. Furthermore the rubber encasement is extended upwardly and moulded around the toe clip 3 which prevents a lip or joint being situated at the junction of 2 the base of the toe clip with the plate I.

In order to prevent the calks 4 and/or 5 being torn ofi from the rubber encasement 2 such as might occur with a horse scufling its feet, particularly the hind ones, reinforcing ribs 6 are moulded on the encasement on the underneath or road engaging face thereof and join the heel calks to the toe calks. These ribs are of course formed integrally with the calks and rubber encasement and are so positioned as to leave a recessed portion 7 in each side of the encasement disposed outwardly of the ribs in which are formed nail receiving orifices 8 which register with nail receiving orifices 9 (preferably round) in the core I. Ordinary horse shoe nails are employedfor securing our shoe to the horses hoof.

In fitting the shoe to the horses hoof it may be bent to fit in exactly the same manner as an orthodox metallic shoe.

By moulding the metal' core of the shoe completely within the rubber casing we, as well as furnishing a resilient tread under the horses hoof, also provide a resilient cushion between the hoof and the metal core, thus enabling the shoe as a whole to adapt itself to any irregularities in the sole of the hoofand at the same time provide a tight joint against the entry of foreign matter. Our type of shoe can be attached by any shoeing smith without special knowledge, as is frequently necessary to properly attach other more complicated types of resilient shoes, the shoe being attached in exactly the same manner as the standard metal shoe with the exception that a drift is used for driving the heads of the nails V ticular embodiment of our invention, it is to be understood that we can make such changes and alterations as we may from time to time deem necessary without departing from' the spirit of our invention as set forth in the appended claims. What we claim as our invention is:

r r 1. In a horse shoe, the combination with a shoeshaped metal core comprising a plate including a toe clip and having depressed portions in. the plate disposed out of the plane of the plate on each side of the clip, of a substantially shoeshaped resilient encasement completely surrounding the core and said toe clip and. filling the depressed portions. 7

2. A horse shoe comprising a shoe-shaped metal core in the form of a plate and having depressed portions disposed out of the plane of the plate, a resilient encasement extending completely around thecore and filling the depressed por tions, said encasement including resilient toe and heel calks formed integrally therewith, and integrally formed resilient ribs extending between the toe and heel calks and so disposed as to leave exterior recessed portions in the resilient encasement between the toe and heel calks, the horizontal faces of the recessed portions having nail' receiving orifices which register with nail receiving orifices in the core.

3. A horse shoe comprising a shoe-shaped metal core in the form of a plate including a toe clip said plate having depressed portions therein:

'on each side of the toe clip disposed out of the plane of the plate; a resilient encasement com- 10 pletely surrounding the metal core and said toe clip, said resilient encasement including resilient toe and heel calks formed integrally therewith, and integrally formed resilient ribs extending between the heel and toe calks and so disposed as to leave exterior recessed portions in the resilient encasement between: the toe and heel calks, the p horizontal faces of the recessed portions having 'nail receiving orifices which register with nail receiving orifices in'the core. r I

4. In a horse shoe r the combination with a shoe shaped metal corecomprisin'g a plate having depressed portions therein disposed out of the plane ANTHONY VICTOR ANn RsoNr JOHN EDWARD ANDERSON. HJOSEPH CHALMERS 

